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Silius, Lieutenant-General; the lower, by Aulus Caecina: the command in
chief rested in Germanicus, then busy
collecting
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I to surely bring
Aid and
protection
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When in an antichamber every guest
Had felt the cold full sponge to pleasure press'd,
By minist'ring slaves, upon his hands and feet,
And fragrant oils with ceremony meet
Pour'd on his hair, they all mov'd to the feast
In white robes, and
themselves
in order placed
Around the silken couches, wondering
Whence all this mighty cost and blaze of wealth could spring.
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But whoso entereth within this town,
That, sheening far, celestial seems to be,
Disconsolate
will wander up and down,
Mid many things unsightly to strange e'e;
For hut and palace show like filthily;
The dingy denizens are reared in dirt;
No personage of high or mean degree
Doth care for cleanness of surtout or shirt,
Though shent with Egypt's plague, unkempt, unwashed, unhurt.
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O to die
advancing
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One laughs at sly
intrigues
who, ere 'tis long,
May, in his turn, be sneered at by the throng:
With such vicissitudes, to be cast down,
Appears rank nonsense worthy Folly's crown.
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s ruler, 8 divine troops are
stirring
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In every issue there is sure to be at least one poem so
interesting
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at is
bygynnyng
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while yet the singing Hebes pour
Forgetfulness of those without the door--
At very hour when all are most in joy,
And the hid
orchestra
annuls annoy,
Woe--woe!
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The dead have
phantoms
that they send.
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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Leurs griffes s'allongerent
sous leurs gants de cuir; leurs yeux gris etincelerent:--l'ame, pure,
immaculee,
virginale
de Ketty!
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But others, rising as they see the sail
Increase
upon the sunset, hasten down,
Hands out and eyes elated; for they see
Head over head, crowding from bow to stern,
Repeopling their long loneliness with smiles,
The faces of their friends; and such go forth
Content upon the ebb tide, with safe hearts.
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When the daughters and the sons
Gathered
them to wed,
And we like-intending ones
Danced till dawn was red,
She would rock and mutter, "More
Comers to this stony shore!
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Now, sir, if ye hae friends enow,
Tho' real friends, I b'lieve, are few;
Yet, if your
catalogue
be fu',
I'se no insist:
But, gif ye want ae friend that's true,
I'm on your list.
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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Fast it sinketh, as a thing
Which its own nature doth precipitate,
While thine doth close above it, mediating
Betwixt the stars and the
unaccomplished
fate.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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Quand avec mes haleurs ont fini ces tapages,
Les Fleuves m'ont laisse
descendre
ou je voulais.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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And on one, that's Earth, a yellow dot, Paris,
Where hangs, a light, a poor ageing fool:
In the frail
universal
order, unique miracle.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And for a woman wert thou first created;
Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting,
And by
addition
me of thee defeated,
By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.
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Until they made themselves a part
Of fancies floating through the brain,
The long-lost
ventures
of the heart,
That send no answers back again.
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As by the kindling of the self-same fire
Harder this clay, this wax the softer grows,
So by my love may Daphnis;
sprinkle
meal,
And with bitumen burn the brittle bays.
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That sun, which ever signall'd the right road,
Where flash'd her own bright feet, to heaven to fly,
Returning
to the Eternal Sun on high,
Has quench'd my light, and cast her earthly load;
Thus, lone and weary, my oft steps have trode,
As some wild animal, the sere woods by,
Fleeing with heavy heart and downcast eye
The world which since to me a blank has show'd.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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"--At these words up flew 580
The impatient doves, up rose the
floating
car,
Up went the hum celestial.
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No
lightning
or storm reach where he's gone.
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Villon |
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"It shall be as thou wishest," said the Dame:
"All cates and dainties shall be stored there
Quickly on this feast-night: by the tambour frame
Her own lute thou wilt see: no time to spare,
For I am slow and feeble, and scarce dare
On such a
catering
trust my dizzy head.
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'For he
promised
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His word was given; from earth or heaven,
He must keep his word, and must come home.
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5, 1655, Blackfriars Theatre was pulled down and
tenements
were
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Yet
sometimes
we are liked ashamed, to be
Taking so much love from you, all for naught.
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Fortune had
favoured
neither side when, as the night wore on, the moon
rose and threw a deceptive glamour over the field of battle.
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This long and shining flank of metal is
Magic that greasy labor cannot spoil;
While this vast engine that could rend the soil
Conceals
its fury with a gentle hiss.
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On Riddel's death,
the Hermitage was allowed to go quietly to decay: I
remember
in 1803
turning two outlyer stots out of the interior.
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ego mulier, ego adolescens, ego ephebus, ego puer,
ego
gymnasei
fui flos, ego eram decus olei:
mihi ianuae frequentes, mihi limina tepida, 65
mihi floridis corollis redimita domus erat,
linquendum ubi esset orto mihi Sole cubiculum.
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Les Odes: 'Pourquoy comme une jeune poutre'
Why like a
skittish
mare
Do you glance askance at me?
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The
transparency
of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies wearinesses ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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_("Non, l'avenir n'est a
personne!
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The suitor-train thy earliest care demand,
Of that
luxurious
race to rid the land;
Three years thy house their lawless rule has seen,
And proud addresses to the matchless queen.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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I am weak--weak--
last night if the guard
had left the gate unlocked
I could not have
ventured
to escape,
but one thought serves me now
with strength.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Thou art a God too,
O
Galilean!
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Equitone,
Tell her I bring the
horoscope
myself:
One must be so careful these days.
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Who bade you
awake from your sleep
And track me beyond the
cerulean
foam of the
deep?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Conversation Galante
I observe: "Our
sentimental
friend the moon!
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T.S. Eliot |
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Back, back, in the wind and rain
Thy driven spirit
wheeleth
again.
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Euripides - Electra |
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They, believing they'd
achieved
surprise,
Fearless, closed, anchored, disembarked,
And then they ran against us in the dark.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Can my misery meal on an ordered walking
Of surpliced
numskulls?
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Stephen Crane |
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And
therefore
do I wander now,
And the fret lies on me.
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We
followed
the thirty-six bends of the twisting waters, and all along
the streams a thousand different flowers were in bloom.
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Li Po |
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Are the jay, and owl, and pewit
All awake and loudly
calling?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Look, thou substantial spirit of
content!
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Sidney Lanier |
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Some states do not allow
disclaimers
of certain implied
warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Death's darts e'en flying feet o'ertake,
Nor spare a
recreant
chivalry,
A back that cowers, or loins that quake.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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'Twas there within the chimney-seat
He watched me to the clock's slow beat--
Loved me, and learnt to call me sweet,
And
whispered
words to me.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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But natheles, this dar I saye,
My modir is not wont to paye,
For she is neither so fool ne nyce, 5945
To
entremete
hir of sich vyce.
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qui natam possis complexu
auellere
matris,
complexu matris retinentem auellere natam,
et iuueni ardenti castam donare puellam.
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Latin - Catullus |
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Why should the
mistress
of the vales of Har, utter a sigh.
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blake-poems |
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O rustle not, ye verdant oaken
branches!
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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s Altar, by legend
constructed
by Duke Wen of Qin, was a mound that marked Fuzhou, where Du Fu?
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don't you be telling us,
I'm innocent of these,
irresponsible
of happenings--
didn't we see you steal next to her,
tenderly,
with your silver mist about you
to hide your blandishment?
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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They will confess they are
offended
with their manner of living
like enough; who is not?
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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He improved in the school of misfortune--the serenity of his temper
remained unclouded by adversity, and his
faculties
unimpaired by age.
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Petrarch |
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Deborah and Jael, famously named,
Like rich lands
enriching
the city their master,
Bring thee now their most golden honour.
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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JEUNE MENAGE
La chambre est ouverte au ciel bleu turquin;
Pas de place: des
coffrets
et des huches!
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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What has not
cankering
Time made worse?
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Keats - Lamia |
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Some have gone away and tarried
Strangely
long by some strange wave;
Some have turned to foes; we carried
Some unto the pine-girt grave:
They 'll come no more so joyous-brave
To take Thanksgiving turkey.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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John
was at this time
eighteen
years of age, and was studying at Verona.
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Petrarch |
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Mercutio
evidently
refers to Saviolo's
book and the use of the rapier in _Rom.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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stird with ambitious pride,
Fight for the rule of the rich fleeced flocke,
Their horned fronts so fierce on either side
Do meete, that with the terrour of the shocke
Astonied both, stand sencelesse as a blocke, 140
Forgetfull
of the hanging victory:?
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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With throat unslack'd, with black lips bak'd
Agape they hear'd me call:
Gramercy!
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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Royalty payments
must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
prepare (or are legally required to
prepare)
your periodic tax
returns.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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--how
solemnly
it falls
Into my heart of hearts!
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Poe - 5 |
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His intellectual outlook was mean and sordid, and out of
ten poems nine deal with wine or women; nevertheless, the
abundance
of
his talent makes it impossible to leave him out of account.
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Li Po |
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The Portuguese prince even visited the
Kingdoms
of Prester John and returned to his own country after three years and four months.
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Appoloinaire |
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So in your freshness, so in all your first newness,
When earth and heaven both
honoured
your loveliness,
The Fates destroyed you, and you are but dust below.
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Ronsard |
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inmitis nidos coluber
custodiet
ante
et uitulos fetae poterunt seruare leaenae.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Purgatorio
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Wordsworth,
'Or hear old Triton blow his
wreathed
horn' (Sonnet--'The World is too
much with us').
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Keats |
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When our host and his wife spoke of their poor
accommodations, meaning for themselves, we assured them that they were
good enough, for we thought that they were only
apologizing
for the
poorness of the accommodations they were about to offer us, and we did
not discover our mistake till they took us up a ladder into a loft,
and showed to our eyes what they had been laboring in vain to
communicate to our brains through our ears, that they had but that one
apartment with its few beds for the whole family.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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Ach, die
Erinnrung
totet mich
Vergab sie mir nur noch in diesem Leben!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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"
[Illustration]
Then the Banker
endorsed
a blank cheque (which he crossed),
And changed his loose silver for notes.
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Lewis Carroll |
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--C'est Cythere,
Nous dit-on, un pays fameux dans les chansons,
Eldorado
banal de tous les vieux garcons.
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Poetry, in especial lyrical poetry, must be
acknowledged
the supreme
art, culminating as it does in a union of the other arts, the musical,
the plastic, and the pictorial.
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Rilke - Poems |
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_Fissle_, to make a
rustling
noise, to fidget, bustle, fuss.
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Robert Forst |
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When my old Leader slipped into the flood
And perished, what a
piercing
outcry you
Sent after him.
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William Wordsworth |
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